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It’s holiday time, and what better way to reward your favorite programmer geek than with a T-shirt? Following are some of my favorite programmer T-shirts:

Java Programmers Change Lightbulb

Front: How many Java programmers does it take to change a light bulb?

Back: You’re still thinking procedurally. A properly designed light bulb object would inherit a change method from a generic light bulb class, so all you’d have to do is send a light bulb change message.

I Manage Programmers

Front: I manage programmers freakin’ primadonnas!!

Will Code for Food

Front: Will Write Code For Food.

Back: It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. — Isaac Asimov

Why is it that people think a source has to be listed in order to post the work? It would be fair use with or without attribution which doesn’t matter either way for xkcd.net because the copyrighted material on the page belongs to a T-SHIRT company.

Um, way to rip off a bunch of T-Shirt designs from Thinkgeek.com
Some of these designs are original, but many are just plagiarized from other, more successful, geek-wear companies.
Originality sells, try it some time.

I thought it was pretty obvious that these are T-shirts produced by another company (Zazzle). I could’ve chosen ThinkGeek or ProgrammerGear, but Zazzle has nice big photos that show up well in the article.

If you are looking for originality, perhaps you should go to CafePress and make your own designs. If you come up with something good, LMK, I’d be glad to show it here.

If you’re in Canada you can make these and more at wordans.com
They’ll look better too… I love the MSPaint diss.

Also, some of the quotes are cheesy.
Here’s my favorite quote not here:
“Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.” -Dick Brandon

If it’s a not-for-profit publication, you need no permission — just print them with attribution to xkcd.com. If it’s a for-profit operation, I will probably give you permission if you email me to let me know. You can post xkcd in your blog (whether ad-supported or not) with no need to get my permission.

as for the comment on the geek t-shirt,,, well honey, it is the geeks whom helped develop computers and all the amazing software for u’r cyber experience. do not complain about the style of the programmer, zip u’r lip and create your unique idea for the shirt of u’r choice,, if you do not like what u c, down load sudo rm-rf/ and the problem will no longer be around…
the end !!!

What a joke. The Pointers shirt is an xkcd comic. xkcd is licensed under the Creative Commons license which means that it CANNOT be reproduced for sale without EXPLICIT permission from the author. And I very much doubt that Randall Munroe would give permission for someone else to sell a shirt of his comic when he all ready has quite a nice store going on http://store.xkcd.com

Guys, if you’re going to buy ANY of the shirts on here, know that you’re supporting illegal actions, such as profiting off of a copyrighted comic.

Software Engineer are quite intelligent and sophicated. It is those that crave unwaranted attention that go protraying themselves as geeks that cannot tell the difference between a lady’s kitty-cat and a doll’s.

hello webmaster thank you that you’ve shared your posting site, “I tried to change the world, but I couldn’t find the source code” only the source code is your self.you must check your self before the world or the others,thanks you so much more power and god bless.

These are all t-shirt very beautiful . As we are sayings on a website, sure, these might have been alright – but that doesn’t mean anyone’s ever going to want to wear them on a T-Shirt. Especially not one that looks like it was done in painted.

Hi, i just got an idea i wanted to share with you 🙂 i think that you can use twitter accounts to promote your product. Buy twitter accounts from any good website providing this service!! You can tweet your links and make lot of money! All the best!!!

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Great yaar. I want to buy this t-shirts but from where i can purchase. My Favorite one is Php T-shirt. I like t-shirts which has some logo of Microsoft or JAVA or php or MySql. Then T-shirts would be awesome friends.

If you find these t-shirts funny, you will love our designs – http://www.ilovewhatido-store.com/it/t-shirts . We have also many more products than just t-shirts – coffee mugs, mouse pads, greetings cards, etc. And not just for developers – we got the QAs, system administrators, tech support and web designers covered.